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Re:Let me Duck Duck Go that for you by gnoupi on Monday May 10, 2010 @11:58AM (#1334797)
The search engine market started before all the "serious people" started coming to the Internet, I think.

I think it is harder nowadays to make a fame with a name like this.

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Re:Let me Duck Duck Go that for you by PostOnce on Monday May 10, 2010 @12:44PM (#1335001)
Jerry Yang calls himself the "Chief Yahoo", and that is about as unserious as it gets.

Windows Live Search changed its name to something less serious to be more appealing to the public. I mean, really, Bing? How serious is that?

Ask.com is about the most sensibly-named search engine. I mean, what do you do with a search engine? You ask it things. That hasn't really helped them corner the market, exactly.

I am ranting. I should go to bed.

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Re:Let me Duck Duck Go that for you by NathanKP on Monday May 10, 2010 @12:29PM (#1334930)
The internet hasn't become any more serious recently. People are still using it for non-serious things (lolcats, 4chan, Reddit, etc) so a non-serious search engine can still attract people, I think.
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